Molecular mechanisms of expression of Lewis b antigen and other type I Lewis antigens in human colorectal cancer

Glycobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 607-616

  Nishihara, Shoko ^a   Hiraga, Tsuneo ^a   Ikehara, Yuzuru ^a   Kudo, Takashi ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroko ^a   Morozumi, Kyoei ^b   Akamatsu, Suguru ^c   Tachikawa, Tetsuya ^c   Narimatsu, Hisashi ^a  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fussa Hospital   (Japan)

^c OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

1,2fucosyltransferase; Colon cancer; H enzyme; Leb antigens; Se enzyme

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP B ANTIGEN; TRANSFERASE; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ADENOMA; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD GROUP LEWIS SYSTEM; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIALYLATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA PRIMERS; GENOTYPE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWIS BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033009897     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/9.6.607     Document Type: Article

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